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Playboy model dons lettuce leaves in new Easter-themed PETA ad

April 3, 2012 7:45pm

Just in time for Easter, Playboy and cover model Sheridyn Fisher is showing her love for rabbits—and "rabbit food"—by wearing only strategically placed lettuce leaves in a new ad for Makati-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Asia.

In the new ad, which encourages everyone to show compassion for bunnies and other animals by embracing vegetarian meals, the lettuce bikini–clad Fisher gives herself lettuce leaf "bunny ears" and grins above the words "Be a Bunny's Honey. Go Vegetarian."

Playboy model Sheridyn Fisher in new PETA ad

"Easter is the perfect time to help bunnies—and pigs, chickens, cows, and other animals—simply by choosing not to eat them," says Fisher. "Vegetarian meals are healthy, humane, and helpful to the environment, so they're something everybunny can enjoy."

PETA says not only are vegetarians fitter and trimmer, on average, than meat-eaters are, they also have a lower risk of heart attacks, cancer, strokes, and obesity.

“Vegetarians also save cows, pigs, and other animals from immense suffering on factory farms, in abattoirs, and on the decks of fishing boats,” it adds. “And vegetarian diets are good for the environment, too: Researchers at the University of Chicago concluded that switching from a standard meat-based diet to one free of animal products is more effective in the fight against climate change than changing from an ordinary car to a hybrid.”

Known for making a splash on the covers and pages of magazines such as Playboy, FHM, Cleo, Girlfriend, and Cosmopolitan, Fisher is also the owner, designer, and face of her own internationally known line of swimsuits, Sheridyn Swim.

Fisher joins a long list of celebrities—including Pink, Geneva Cruz, Lea Michele, Isabel Roces, Yasmien Kurdi, Pamela Anderson, and Sir Paul McCartney—who have teamed up with PETA and its affiliates to help animals.